Good deal for a 2GB GTX 650TI with a moderate Overclock and custom cooler. Has 768 cudas and performs very well for the price. 2GB is good for people wanting higher resolutions......only bad thing is these 650's don't do SLI.

This gigabyte one comes with a free Assassins Creed 3 game download coupon

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not to be a party pooper or thread crapster , but wasnt this card wayyy cheaper. mind you i dont care about the flippin game. $110 or $99 AR with the game. I would at this point glady roll over and die with joy if I can score a 650 ti for $100 hoops or no hoops even in my best dreams the damn game cant be flipped for more than $20 with anyone remotely interested.

not to be a party pooper or thread crapster , but wasnt this card wayyy cheaper. mind you i dont care about the flippin game. $110 or $99 AR with the game. I would at this point glady roll over and die with joy if I can score a 650 ti for $100 hoops or no hoops even in my best dreams the damn game cant be flipped for more than $20 with anyone remotely interested.

Some guy on newegg said he used 2 in his rig but others said no sli support. I thought all the 600's had sli support?

no its physically not possible the sli ribbon cable deal isnt even present to make them sli if that was the case. done purposely to be made cheaper. which appeals to me for rendering not pron game play

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this is a 2GB version. those are incomparable 1GB cards

i doubt the extra 1gb is going to help me in video editing let alone be utilised by the software

Some guy on newegg said he used 2 in his rig but others said no sli support. I thought all the 600's had sli support?

The core theory of product segmentation is that a company can produce a single product with relatively minor variations, market it to different customer groups -- sometimes under different brand names -- and thereby increase market share while reducing the cost of developing radically different products. Segmentation relies on market research to identify the product characteristics that resonate with target markets. Product development engineers then provide different iterations of the same basic model that meet the preferred traits for each market segment.

As you can see below, the GTX 650 Ti has lower base and memory speeds than the GTX 660, and it also lacks GPU Boost, so the card doesn't venture beyond the base clock regardless of the available thermal headroom. (SLI multi-GPU capabilities aren't on the menu, either.)

If you game at 1080p or less, you'd be much better off going with a 7850 1GB for ~$150. There aren't many games where this card (the 650 Ti) has enough muscle to take advantage of the extra GB of VRAM.

Skyrim is one of the only games that will show a difference, though the difference in that game IS quite large:

The core theory of product segmentation is that a company can produce a single product with relatively minor variations, market it to different customer groups -- sometimes under different brand names -- and thereby increase market share while reducing the cost of developing radically different products. Segmentation relies on market research to identify the product characteristics that resonate with target markets. Product development engineers then provide different iterations of the same basic model that meet the preferred traits for each market segment.

LUL. I meant the odd reference to the morbidly obese billionaire that thought it was cool to force gamers into DRM.

If you game at 1080p or less, you'd be much better off going with a 7850 1GB for ~$150. There aren't many games where this card (the 650 Ti) has enough muscle to take advantage of the extra GB of VRAM.http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Pr...549?vs=680

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So despite the fact that our data doesn’t immediately show the benefits of 2GB cards, our thoughts go in the other direction. As 2012 comes to a close, cards that can hit the GTX 650 Ti’s performance level are not well equipped for future with only 1GB of VRAM. 1GB is the cheaper option – and at these prices every penny counts – but it is our belief that by this time next year 1GB cards will be in the same place 512MB cards were in 2010: bottlenecked by a lack of VRAM. We have reached that point where if you’re going to be spending $150 or more that you shouldn’t be settling for a 1GB card; this is the time where 2GB cards are going to become the minimum for performance gaming video cards.

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